We spent hours and hours strolling the streets of large
cities and small towns.In many
ways, all modern cities look pretty much the same.But it was the differences, especially visible in the
smaller or older places, that prompted us to raise our camera:

Many places are still surrounded by old medieval walls:

The Alhambra was an entirely enclosed fortress and
town when it functioned as the seat of government for Muslim Spain

One of the gates to the city.Toledo

Remains of a tower in the walls of Girona

Gate to the Jewish quarter of Cordoba

Ronda.One of the entrances to the old Muslim sector of the city

Streets are always a delight in Iberia.

Castello da Vide – a typical hilltop town in
eastern Portugal.

Tilework on the exterior of houses is very common in
Portugal.

Our hotel window.Evora, Portugal

Laundry hanging outside seemed a regular street
scene in Portugal

Cordoba

GranadaPosters, tilework, window boxes – this one place had everything.

Street through the old wall of Toledo. Note the
dropping gate

Toledo

The Call (the old Jewish street) in Barcelona

Girona, Spain

In the “White Towns” of southern
Spain.Grazalema

Arcos de la Frontera, another of the “White
Towns”

Folks have lived in these caves outside Granada for
generations.

House in Granada

From time to time a doorway would call out to be
photographed

Doorway of a Jewish home (there’s a mezuzah
slot) from pre-expulsion times.Evora, Portugal

Door of an old synagogue in Toledo

Toledo

Toledo

Arcos de la Frontera, Spain

One of the exterior doors to the Great Mosque in
Cordoba

House in a hillside cave.Granada

It’s not really a doorway.It’s the interior courtyard of
the house we stayed in in Cordoba